diarrhea of the mouth

noun

"diarrhea-of-the-mouth" is a 18-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“diarrhea of the mouth” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
21
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Foolish talkativeness, logorrhea.

Corpus desk

Index EN-diarrhea-of-the-mouth · diarrhea of the mouth · English

diarrhea of the mouth · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 21 letters
  • VOW-8 8 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "D" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for diarrhea of the mouth
PropertyValue
Headworddiarrhea of the mouth
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “diarrhea of the mouth” in English

diarrhea of the mouthsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

diarrhea of the mouth is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Foolish talkativeness, logorrhea.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for diarrhea of the mouth, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is diarrhea of the mouth, spelled D-I-A-R-R-H-E-A- -O-F- -T-H-E- -M-O-U-T-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    Foolish talkativeness, logorrhea.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how diarrhea of the mouth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. He's just a kid, and he's got diarrhea of the mouth, but he's pretty cool.
  2. A psychologist might call his behavior narcissistic, egotistical, and, no doubt, a sign of hidden insecurity. Donald himself called it "truthful hyperbole." Broker Ed Gordon labeled it "diarrhea of the mouth."

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "diarrhea of the mouth"?
"diarrhea of the mouth" is spelled D-I-A-R-R-H-E-A- -O-F- -T-H-E- -M-O-U-T-H.
What does "diarrhea of the mouth" mean?
As a noun, "diarrhea of the mouth" means: Foolish talkativeness, logorrhea.
What language does "diarrhea of the mouth" come from?
"diarrhea of the mouth" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list